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KARVY report on Cummins India:

Friday, June 8, 2007

Karvy Stock Broking has maintained an outperformer rating on Cummins India with a target price of Rs 365.


For Q4FY07 (standalone), Cummins reported revenue growth of 30%YoY (QoQ increase of 6%) to Rs 5 billion as against expectation of Rs 4.94 billion. Engine business grew by 28.2% to Rs 4.69 billion while other business reported revenue growth of 52% to Rs 398 million.

EBIDTA margins improved form 15% in Q4FY06 to 16.3% for the quarter against expectations of 15%. The margin improvement is mainly due to lower raw material cost which, as a percentage of sales decreased from 67% in Q4FY06 to 66% in Q4FY07. The operating profit increased by 41% to Rs 823 million. The other income increased by 20% to Rs 236 million due to better treasury management of surplus cash of around Rs 2.6 billion. Overall, the net profit increased by 21% YoY to Rs 656 million translating into EPS of Rs 3.3 as against expectation of Rs 3 during the quarter. The company has declared an interim dividend of Rs 2/- per equity share.


For FY07 on consolidated basis, revenue increased by 19.6% to Rs 21.2 billion and adjusted profit grew by 44% to Rs 2.6 billion. At a current price of Rs 303, the stock is trading at 22.5x FY07 and 16.6x FY08 earnings and EV/EBIDTA it is trading at 18.7xFY07 and 12.5x FY08E. We have revised FY08 revenue estimates upward by 1.8% to Rs 26.4 billion and profit by 8.6% to Rs 3.6 billion on back of strong Q4FY07 numbers. We maintain our valuation at 20xFY08 earnings with revised target price of Rs 365 (previous Rs 335) and maintain our Outperformer rating.

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